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Don’t fret about Pinterest Pete, your graphics indeed look better (I was going to comment on that even before I read the rest of the post). Pinterest doesn’t do anything unless one pin goes viral so it’s more a waiting game for newcomers like us nerds. Twitter is pretty useless for conversions so I wouldn’t worry about that either. It’s just a place to hang out with blog friends since no real people use Twitter anymore.

Interesting stats, good to see that we have a lot of space for improvement 🙂 I don’t share things like this until there will be true results which worth looking at. My numbers 20 days into this blogging thing are 6 posts, ~150 visitors with 400+ pageview and 35 twitter follower. I don’t know if this is ok but much more than I expected at all 🙂 Keep on rollin’

Nice work. Thank you for sharing and encouraging. I have a tough time treating my blog as a business. Mental block, lack of experience, you name it. But I’m coming around, and things are starting to click.

I’m so impressed you’ve found a way to make these kinds of reports actually valuable, and funny and engaging, too.

Congrats on the product launch! I remember seeing stuff about it on Twitter, but wasn’t sure exactly what it was. Now I wish I had looked into it more! Did you close it quickly on purpose?

I struggled with putting stats on my last post, because it invites comparisons and makes people feel bad. But at the same time, I think it’s good to show people that there are multiple ways to grow (even without Pinterest!). I think I’ve had like, 5 clicks from there, because I haven’t done anything with it. I don’t want to do anything on there until I’m positive I can convert that traffic. And I definitely don’t think that Pinterest will work for every single person/niche.

Would love to know ideas for a can’t-miss freebie that’s not lame. I struggle with that a lot, because I’m a perfectionist.

Also, forget if I told you, but I had your podcast on one day, and my husband was like, “Ohh, this guy’s good at podcasting.” And usually when I have a podcast on, he’s like, “Honey, this guy is so annoying. Can you please put your headphones on?”

Keep up the good work! I find your content very helpful, so I’ll keep reading it and coming back, even if you cut our social media altogether. I do appreciate your income reports, so I would vote for you to continue them.

I really love your content & clicked this post off of Pinterest! I think you’ve done a tremendous job to really build your reputation (I found you first from a guest post on Edens blog, and have loved reading your posts from there. Especially your failures post.)

Great job and it will be fun to continue following along! I think you’re on the right track and soon there will be more people like me who click off from Pinterest!

For me – I try to focus on getting regular repins. This way I show up on Pinterest searches. (You probably know that lol)

Thank so much for sharing, Pete! I’d love to publish my own blog income reports because I find them so helpful as a new blogger. However, this being my second month, I only had 400 views last month and made $0. I don’t think anyone wants to read that.

This month I’m really focusing on Pinterest and starting to see some results one week in (doubled daily pageviews) but still nothing to write home about. I really appreciated your Pinterest email course and thought it was great. Your Pinterest graphics are looking good.

My biggest issue is that I have so many ideas and get frustrated quickly when I don’t see results right off the bat. I do corporate marketing for a living but I work with an established brand, which makes getting results quickly much easier. I’m now focusing on one strategy at a time and seeing it through.

Thanks for all the helpful content and advice that you provide us newbie bloggers. 🙂

Keep at it Veneta, and I still read $0 income reports (and happen to know a ton of bloggers that value *relatable* content, so I think you should do one next month!) It might be a good exercise for you as well 🙂

Good job setting and reaching a goal! Even reaching one goal is a big accomplishment! Love this idea of writing an income report that is more than just “here’s how much I made”. I felt encouraged by your experiences with twitter and Pinterest because I have also been feeling underwhelmed by the lack of social traffic to my blog lately. But I have been loving twitter as a place to connect w/ the blogging community! Look forward to seeing how you do next month 🙂

Somehow I missed this post earlier! I like this format with takeaways with what worked and what didn’t. I think even showing what was purchased and how much each affiliate is making helps add validation for other people thinking about using those products. It’s almost like a tl;dr of what to buy – “Here, these products have been validated by other people buying them so you know they’re good!”.

Great income report. I love your learning and we are all in this journey together.

The majority of my traffic (thank goodness) comes from organic search and now I’m doing/looking to do more guest posting. Over the last month or so, I did 2 of those and would love to do 1 per week through the end of the week…but, I think I’ll be lucky if I can get to half of that.

I think you pinterest images are good, and that’s how I got here. You may want to do a few of them lighter, but overall they’re good. I have a hunch the opportunity may be in groups. As I’m sure you know, it’s not the # of groups, but the quality of them (look at tailwind repin rates, especially over last 7 days). I’ve been in some of your groups and either dropped them or stopped pinning as I wasn’t getting repins. I believe it truly is quality over quantity. If you pin to a group and no one repins, that seems to hurt your pin. At the same time, I got into some better groups. So, now I’m just pinning to those. I only pin to groups in my niche/applicable to my pin and I’ve ditched the general/pin everything groups.

I wish I knew the best boards for your niche. Pair up w/ someone in your niche and trade info, see if you can invite each other to a couple of good boards or at least identify them.